verbal learning

the process of learning about verbal stimuli and responses, such as letters, digits, nonsense syllables, or words. The methods used include paired-associates learning and serial learning. Researchers in the verbal learning tradition, influenced by Hermann Ebbinghaus and by associationism, sought to uncover basic laws of learning by studying simple materials under controlled conditions. Compare nonverbal learning.

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speciesism

n. discriminatory, prejudicial, or exploitative practices against nonhuman animals, often on the basis of an assumption of human superiority. See also animal rights. —speciesist n., adj.